Shared global power is messy but fairer. A single-nation police force isn't true equality. The future of #democracy is decentralized. #MiddlePowers are leaning into #minilateralism —building focused coalitions to solve global issues without waiting on #superpower approval. 🤝

🇨🇦🇫🇷🇩🇪 Save the Date | FDS Colloque 2026
🗓️ 9 Jan 2026 – Ottawa region

Canada & the Euro-Atlantic pillar: new paths for minilateral cooperation.

🔔 Details coming soon.
#FDS #TransatlanticSecurity #Defence #Minilateralism #NATO

Minilateralism And The Third Nuclear Age: In Pursuit Of Dialogue - BASIC Megan Dee explores a third nuclear age in which distrust, deadlock and disorder impinge multilateral mechanisms for dialogue and deliberation. Ahead of the 2025 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) ...

Read my latest on #minilateralism and the #thirdnuclearage ahead of the 2025 #NPT #PrepCom in New York at👇🏻

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Also incentivises groups of these countries to gang up to press their collective advantage- #minilateralism - which weakens the position of the big guy, i.e. USA. Maybe that's a good thing, but not for American hegemony.

What is ‘minilateralism’, and why is Beijing fascinated with it? AUKUS and the Quad are examples of 'minilateralism' – what are Beijing's equivalents?

Read the latest #Investigator from #ObservingChina 👇

🌏 ‘Beijing’s official media dismisses the concept of #minilateralism held by the free and open nations as ‘pseudo-multilateralism’ while simultaneously developing its own variants,’ argues David Kelly, founding partner at China Policy

How can Britain work with Trump’s America to secure strategic advantage? The Big Ask | No. 04.2025

🤝 ‘The UK should give intellectual and practical support to #minilateralism in geopolitical matters and open regionalism in economic ones,’ says David Kelly, China Policy

#BritainsWorld #BigAsk

Abstract Submission Guidelines | EISA

CfP for a workshop I am convening at European Workshops in International Studies in Krakow on 2-4 July 2025: eisa-net.org/wp-content/u...

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⚠️New article online!

🛡️ From #Strategic to Tech-oriented #Minilateralism: #GCAP as a Platform to Accelerate #MilitaryTechnology Development

🔗www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0393272...

✒️ Alice Dell’Era & ‪@matpiasentini.bsky.social‬‬‬‬

#defence #Japan #Italy #UK

Joining the US & disengaging from multilateral institutions undermines the #EU's soft power, which is central to forging coalitions to tackle global problems w/o the US.

But rejecting US #minilateralism might further erode the #transatlantic partnership & US #security guarantees!

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🚨NEW ONLINE: Panda and Park discuss "Minilateralism and global governance: effectiveness of hybrid models." Part of upcoming special edition on #IndoPacific #minilateralism. ⬇️
reurl.cc/g6o04V #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #Polisky ⬇️

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🚨NEW ONLINE: Wu & Kim on "China’s perception of minilateralism and Chinese-style multilateralism". Part of upcoming special edition on #IndoPacific #minilateralism. reurl.cc/WNokL9 ⬇️ #AcademicPublishing #AcademicSky #Polisky #InternationalRelations

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🚨NEW ONLINE: Also part of upcoming edition on #IndoPacific #Minilateralism. Richey and Ohn: ‘It’s fine in practice, but how about in theory?’ State-of-the-art minilateralism between expectations and reality". reurl.cc/vvxe6A ⬇️ #AcademicPublishing #InternationalRelations #Polisky #AcademicSky

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🚨NEW ONLINE: Panda and Ohn discuss "Minilateralism and the new Indo-Pacific order: theoretical ambitions and empirical realities". Part of an upcoming special edition on #minilateralism in the #IndoPacific. 👀 this space.
t.ly/Cue9- #AcademicSky #InternationalRelations #AcademicPublishing #Polisky

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🚨New online! Part of upcoming special edition on #IndoPacific #minilateralism: focusing on 🇰🇷, 🇸🇬 & 🇹🇼, Jung &Tan discuss how minilateral cooperation has become increasingly popular among some Asian states. #AcademicSky #InternationalRelations #Polisky #AcademicPublishing ⬇️
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🚨New online! We are working on a special edition on #minilateralism in the #IndoPacific. First paper online in this edition, "European security and minilateralism in the Indo-Pacific", is by Liselotte Odgaard. #AcademicSky #InternationalRelations #Polisky #AcademicPublishing
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Indo-Pacific Minilateralism and Strategic Competition (I): Australia/Japan and Chinese Approaches Compared How have Indo-Pacific nations utilized minilateral fora for cooperation? Read the first installment of our two-part Occasional Paper series, "Indo-Pacific Minilateralism and Strategic Competition."

Great read on #Indopacific #minilateralism.
I agree that #China is currently doing a better work in economic diplomacy, and that #Japan and #Australia approach remains focused on security, recent #JAPHUS grouping shows that economic security is gaining traction also in non-Chinese led minilaterals.

Minilateralism in Philippine Foreign Policy and Domestic Politics SYNOPSIS The 11 April US-Japan-Philippines Trilateral Leaders’ Summit reflects President Ferdinand Marcos Jr’s turn to minilateralism to advance his foreign policy agenda. However, his actions to defe...

Great piece on the last developments in #Philippines foreign policy and #minilateralism

While I agree that #ASEAN partners do still play a prominent role, this may rapidly change if what agreeed upon in minilaterals like #JAPHUS delivers results.

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The Myth of the Asian Swing State Great-power competition no longer dominates the region’s politics.

This is why @jadacfraser.bsky.social has stressed importance of U.S. becoming comfortable with flexible #minilateralism approaches precisely to address these concerns.
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